Soups

This pork is one of my absolute favorite Mexican pumpkin recipes. The sauce can be served as a soup or as a pasta sauce even. I’ve served it with pumpkin agnolotti. Pork with Mashed Pumpkin (Puerco con Calabaza) 2…

Outtake of Tesmole Verde by Laurie Smith (www.lauriesmithophotos.com) who will probably chastise me! The state of Veracruz has a rich variety of soup stew with vegetables and herb. They with similar names such as tesmole, chilpachole, chileatole. What…

This cheese and potato chowder is a specialty of the state of Sonora but can also be found in other states in northern Mexico. My mother’s version from her book, Mexican Family Cooking (Ballantine 1987)is perfect. I made it last…

My dear friend, Jim Dickson came from Schenectady to see me today and I made him pozole rojo. The pozole was delicious and the company even better. My son Rodrigo, my daughter-in-law Victoria and my granddaughter…

Welcoming guests into my home and introducing them to my food fills me with joy. It is not the fleeting moment of the meal but organizing everything for the perfect party that extends the pleasure. Planning the menu can take…

This soup is particularly wonderful when tomatoes and corn are both in seasonal glory but I felt like eating it so, though I could’ve used canned tomatoes, I made it with the kind of tomatoes and corn available on a…

I’ve read and heard that guacamole is now the most popular Super Bowl dish and you can learn to make it by watching my video, but I am sure that’s only because they haven’t tasted my queso fundido with home-made…

In Guadalajara I encountered not only Jaliscan recipes but dishes from different parts of Mexico. This delicious soup from Tlalpan, a suburb of Mexico City, is one that I remember having with my parents when they came to…